Why god exists:
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IN THE BIBLE
Here are nine passages in the Scriptures that describe what we call "scientific information". This "science" was written in God's Word over 2000 years ago, and only recently credited as a "scientific discovery" by a modern "scientist":
1.
Job 38:31,32 Movement of the planets:
About
100 years ago an astronomer named M. Medler discovered that Alcyone,
the brightest star in the constellation Pleiades, is the gravitational
center of the universe. In the discussion between God and Job in Job
chapter 38, the Hebrew phrase "bind the sweet influences of Pleiades"
in verse 31 is describing Pleiades as "binding" or "connecting" the
heavens together by its gravitational "influence". Bob Thieme, in his
book "Canonicity", says that the Hebrew word "kimah" meant "hinge",
"pivot, or "axil"! Amazing, God named that spot in the universe
and gave this information to Job over 3000 years
before Medler the astronomer discovered it!
2.
Job 28:25 Air has weight:
In Job 28:25, God says that He made a "weight" for the winds, or
literally for the "moving air". Approximately 350 years ago, the
scientist Galileo initiated the scientific concept that air had
"weight". Today we know that the downward pressure of a one square inch
column of air at sea level is 14.7 pounds. Notice also in Job 28:26
& 27 God told Job that He decreed in eternity past where and
when rain would fall and lightning would strike! That is why
our modern laws wisely call a lightning strike an "Act of God".
3.
Static electricity
Jer 10:13 states that God "causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends
of the earth; he maketh lightenings with rain". God is describing to
Job that the condensation of water vapor
causes static electricity. Scientists studying lightning
discovered that this can be proven in the science laboratory.
4.
Who thought the earth was flat?
In Isa 40:22 the earth is said to be a "circle" in the KJV. The Hebrew
word translated "circle" is "chug" meaning a SPHERE. "Chug" is
translated "circle" here and "compass" in Prov 8:27, but means a sphere
or ball. God's people since the time of Isaiah the prophet knew that
the earth was a "sphere" or "ball" and not flat. The ancient people who
thought the earth was flat either did not know, or did not believe the
Old Testament Scriptures! Even our English word "atmosphere" means a
"sphere" of "air"!
5.
The Earth rotates on its axis
In Luke 17:31-36, Jesus is describing the Second Advent at the end of
the Great Tribulation, when He will return to earth to rule and reign
over this earth for 1000 years, and He says both "in that
day", and "in that night". He describes people involved in daytime and
nighttime activity at the same point in time. Jesus knew that
the earth was a rotating sphere that has daylight on one
side while it is night on the other side! He should know, He
created it!
6.
Quarantine for communicable diseases
In Lev 13:45,46, God states that leprosy victims in the contagious
stage must be quarantined. This reminds us that the Jews, as God's
people, had medical, dietary, and civil laws long before the rest of
the world.
7.
Telegraph
In Job 38:35 God asked Job if he could send the lightning with a
message and say "here we are". Amazing, God is describing messages
transmitted by electricity. Man would not understand the significance
of this discourse between God and Job until Alexander Graham Bell sent
his first electrically transmitted message. Bell's first message, on
March 10, 1876, was "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you". Do you
remember from your history book what Bell's reaction was when Mr.
Watson acknowledged that the first electrically transmitted message was
successful? Bell said "What God hath wrought!"
8.
Human physiology and the circulation of blood in the human body
Long before Dr Harvey discovered the circulation of blood in our
bodies, Solomon wrote about it in Eccl 12:6! Verses 3 - 7 are an
amazing description of the physiology of the human aging process also.
Especially amazing when we realize that it was written in God's Word
over 2000 years ago! In verse 6, the "silver cord" is the spine, the
"golden bowl" refers to the cranium, and the "pitcher, fountain, wheel
and cistern" refer to the heart and circulatory system. Verse
3 describes the result of the aging process on the nervous system,
back, teeth, and eyes. Verse 4 describes hearing loss and
sleeplessness. Verse 5 describes fears in general, fear of heights,
bitterness, loss of strength and motivation.
9.
The Earth's fixed weather patterns
In Eccl 1:5-7 Solomon describes the fixed circuits of the earth's
weather patterns and winds and the laws of evaporation and condensation
of water long before it became "scientific knowledge". The rivers
constantly run into the sea, but the sea does not get full. The waters
return to the rivers (through evaporation, condensation and wind
pattern and rain) and run into the seas again! Read the book of
Ecclesiastes sometime. Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes. The word
"Ecclesiastes" basically means "Listen up, I have something to say!".
He was the richest man the world has ever seen. He had it all, and if
he heard about something new anywhere in the world, he sent for it, so
he could have it too. In the end, he found that "things" could not make
him really happy. In the last two verses, his
conclusion is to fear God and keep His Word, and then we can
enjoy "things".1. The Argument from Change
2. The Argument from Efficient Causality
3. The Argument from Time and Contingency
4. The Argument from Degrees of Perfection
5. The Design Argument
6. The Kalam Argument
7. The Argument from Contingency
8. The Argument from the World as an Interacting Whole
9. The Argument from Miracles
10. The Argument from Consciousness
11. The Argument from Truth
12. The Argument from the Origin of the Idea of God
13. The Ontological Argument
14. The Moral Argument
15. The Argument from Conscience
16. The Argument from Desire
17. The Argument from Aesthetic Experience
18. The Argument from Religious Experience
19. The Common Consent Argument
20. Pascal's Wager
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